The National Education Guidelines (NEGs)

There are 5 components to the National Education Guidelines - National Education Goals, foundation curriculum policy statements, national curriculum statements, National Standards and National Administration Guidelines (NAGs).

National Standards (external link), which are standards, in regard to matters such as literacy and numeracy, that are applicable to all students of a particular age or in a particular year of schooling.

The purpose of a school charter is to establish the mission, aims, objectives, directions, and targets of the Board that will give effect to the Government's national education guidelines and the Board's priorities.

- section 61 (4) (b) .

A school charter must include the Board's aims, objectives, directions, priorities, and targets in the following categories:

... (b) the Board's activities aimed at meeting both general government policy objectives for all schools, being policy objectives set out or referred to in national education guidelines, and specific policy objectives applying to that school:

- and section 62 (2) which states

A school charter must be prepared and updated in accordance with national administration guidelines.